Lola-Rose Pedersen
About
CV
Projects
Kiki the KilnWorkshops
Cross-Stitch
Works
Drawing
Ruskin Degree Show
Preppers
CONTACT
Mail:
lolarosepedersen@gmail.com
Instagram
ARTIST STATEMENT
Lola-Rose Pedersen (b. 1999, Montpellier) is an artist working from a foundation in craft: embroidery, collage and drawing. The work examines how places are shaped by systems of circulation: what is discarded, emergent, repeating and in suspension between the values of usefulness and redundancy.
Through the activity akin to gleaning she gathers data; both as object and as digital asset. Hands, mouths and possessions of strangers appear as incomplete data: gathered, organised and archived in arrangements that fall short of the expectations of a traditional dataset.
Committed to holding the position that posits; to throw away, to put someone away, to look away is in practice a political fiction, “Away” is a logistical convenience and a misdirection of attention.
These hoards later appear in the work as rearrangements according to a specific sensibility, often informed by the movement of internet trends. Hyper aesthetic motifs sit alongside materials recognisable as trash. The formation of value arrives by dedicated occupational labour informed by historical liberatory practices and strategies learned through living provisionally.
Pedersen questions what agency we have within domestic and institutional spaces, how we meet them in a limited temporality, in tenuous belonging and contested property rights.
The work exists as a set of proposals and mechanisms for attending to what is made marginal, asking how things (objects, people, worldviews) might hold entanglements beyond mapping.
The exhibition will be open from Wednesday 27th to Saturday 31st of October, 1-5pm daily.
Opening evening Wednesday 27th 6-9pm.
Throughout the week, additional events in the gallery will happen, including embroidery workshops.
Details to come soon
Lola-Rose Pedersen presents a series of embroidery works made in collaboration with Fine Cell Work, a charity that trains and employs people in prisons across England in fine needlework.
The works draw parallels between road markings and embroidery charts as code systems of instruction. Made without conventional charts, the embroideries bring these systems into dialogue, exploring the relationship between authority, trust and agency.
The works consider how the language of roads becomes a source of metaphors for life: paths, crossroads, lanes, wrong turns, destinations, junctions and dead ends are embedded within memoir, as though lives unfold across a landscape. The work asks how individuals’ journeys are entangled with wider social systems, and how movement, possibility and restriction are distributed.
Education
MFA Ruskin School of Art, University of OxfordThe Institute for Post Natural Studies
BA Goldsmith’s University of London
The School for Social Entrepreneurs
Extended Diploma Plymouth College of Art
South Devon Steiner School
EXHIBITIONS
Ruskin Fine Art Degree Show
University of Oxford
Jun 2026
Arabesque
Hardboiled NYC
Apr 2026
Love Beams Bricks Dreams
University of Oxford
Feb 2026
Launch
Take Courage Gallery
Dec 2025
Evidence of Activity
Guardianship flat South London
Sept 2025
PizzaBox
Abbas Zahedi
Jul 2025
WildFlower
Newson’s Yard
Aug 2024 – Jun 2025
Impermanent
Safehouse 2
May 2023
Creature Comforts
JGM Gallery London
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
ClubKiki
SET Gallery Lewisham
Dec 2022
Duty-Free Art school
Chelsea College of Art
Jul 2022
Goldsmith Fine Art Degree Show
Laurie Grove Baths
Jun 2022
The formula of withheld knowledge
ArtHub
Apr 2022
Roam
SET Gallery Woolwich
Apr 2022
Contemporary Textiles Exhibition
ArtHub
Feb 2022
PRESS ETC
o OBTUSE ARCHIVE
Visual essay about my practice and research.
o ROASTED TONGUE ARTIST INTERVIEW
o VASSAR REVIEW
Selected as the front cover of the Vassar Review Magazine 2022 edition
o PILZ KUNST LABOR
Selected to be part of a lecture series titled ‘Art Beyond the Human: Co-Creation with Fungi in Contemporary Art’ featuring my work “Myco-Pets”
o TATE MODERN
Awarded a place on the Tate Exchange program as the Fine Art student representative of Plymouth College of Art in 2016.
In safety containers, 2026
290 x 300cm
Dust sheet, Graphite, Packing Tape
In safety containers, 2026
290 x 300cm
Dust sheet, Graphite, Packing Tape
290 x 300cm
Dust sheet, Graphite, Packing Tape
| the thick; urgency PRESS, 2026
400 x 300cm Dust sheet, Graphite, Packing Tape, Glow-in-the-dark Stars |
290 x 140cm
Dust sheet, Grahite, Aluminium
Triage Excess, 2026
290 x 400cm
Dust sheet, Graphite, Packing Tape
290 x 400cm
Dust sheet, Graphite, Packing Tape
300 x 400 cm
Dust Sheet, Graphite, Aluminium
240 x 120 cm
Glass, Plastic Refuse Sack, Used Paper Straws
Trust Fund, Catch Pearl, Total Monster, 2026 (left)
244 x 122 cm
MDF Studio Wall, Matt Trade Emulsion, Ink, Sunflower Oil
Amassing Stash, perhaps tomorrow lavish heaps, 2026 (right)
244 x 122 cm
MDF Studio Wall, Matt Trade Emulsion, Ink, Sunflower Oil
244 x 122 cm
MDF Studio Wall, Matt Trade Emulsion, Ink, Sunflower Oil
Amassing Stash, perhaps tomorrow lavish heaps, 2026 (right)
244 x 122 cm
MDF Studio Wall, Matt Trade Emulsion, Ink, Sunflower Oil
244 x 122 cm
MDF Studio Wall, Matt Trade Emulsion, Ink, Sunflower Oil, Plastic Refuse Sack